at uncertain intervals, the extinguisher of the Berlin police coming down on it whenever it appears), the Lantern and the White Lamp, the Snuffers followed the list of lights, and the whole category concluded in an Egyptian Darkness, to which most of them have descended.  The other titles are not so well classified:  there was a Democratic Reasoner, a Shrieker (or Shouter), and the Berlin Widemouth, the Barricade Journal, the Street Journal, the Cat’s Music, the Red Cap, the Sansculottes (Ohne-Hosen), the Tower of Fools, are miscellaneous:  there was a variety of devils—­the Travelling Devil, the Devil Untied, the Church Devil, the Revolutionary Devil.  Some of the titles were cant words, quite untranslatable, as Kladderadatsch (the Berlin Punch, still existing), the Klitsch-Klatsch, and the Pumpernickel (a kind of black bread); the three last were—­The Prussians Have Come, the General Wash, and the Political Ass.  In the provincial towns all the flying leaves were something for the people—­Volks-boten, Volks-freunde, Volks-zeitung—­in a list that would be too long to repeat.

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TRUE PROGRESS.—­The civilization of antiquity was the advancement of the few and the slavery of the many—­in Greece 30,000 freemen and 300,000 slaves—­and it passed away.  True civilization must be measured by the progress, not of a class or nation, but of all men.  God admits none to advance alone.  Individuals in advance become martyrs—­nations in advance the prey of the barbarian.  Only as one family of man can we progress.  But man must exist as an animal before he can exist as a man:  his physical requirements must be satisfied before those of mind; and hitherto it has taken the whole time and energies of the many to provide for their physical wants.  Such wants have spread mankind over the whole globe—­the brute and the savage have disappeared before the superior race—­the black blood of the torrid zone has been mixed with the white of the temperate, and a superior race, capable of living and laboring under a zenith sun, has been formed, and we seem to be preparing for a united movement onward.  The elements have been pressed into our service, the powers of steam and electricity would appear boundless, and science has given man an almost unlimited control over nature.  The trammels which despotisms have hitherto imposed on body and mind have been thrown off, and constitutional liberty has rapidly and widely spread.  The steamship and railway, and mutual interests in trade and commerce, have united nation to nation, and the press has given one mind and simultaneous thoughts to the whole community.  Power there is in plenty for the emancipation of the whole race; since the steam engine and machinery may be to the working-classes what they have hitherto been to those classes above them.  All that is wanted is to know how to use these forces for the general good.  The powers of production are inexhaustible; we have but to organize them, and justly to distribute the produce.—­Charles Bray.